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With the Q4 State of the Internet - Security Report due out later this month, we continue to preview sections of it. Last week we told you about a DDoS attack from a group claiming to be Lizard Squad and the unintended consequences of many bots, spiders and scrapers. Today, we preview the evolution of malware -- including the way security researchers label it.

With the Q4 State of the Internet - Security Report due out later this month, we continue to preview sections of it. Earlier this week we told you about a DDoS attack from a group claiming to be Lizard Squad. Today we look at how third-party content bots and scrapers are becoming more prevalent as developers seek to gather, store, sort and present a wealth of information available from other

By PLXsert January 12, 2015 'Twas the season for a not-so-jolly DDoS attack from a group claiming to be Lizard Squad - flinging Christmas tree packets as they are commonly known. Details of the DDoS attack indicate the ongoing development of DDoS attack tools. And while not the largest DDoS attack to date, this TCP flag DDoS attack would hinder or completely clog most corporate infrastructures. One packet exhibited the

Akamai Security Advocate Dave Lewis and I made Tripwire's list of "Top Influencers in Security You Should Follow in 2015." For each security practitioner selected, Tripwire included Twitter handles, blog URLs and reasons for selecting the individuals. Tripwire also asked us what infosec-related superpower we wished to have, in keeping with this year's theme of "InfoSec Avengers."Thanks to Tripwire for including us on the list!

The following PLXsert advisory came out last week, but I'm just back from vacation and catching up on what I missed. This one is high-risk and worth mentioning here. Public dumps of compromised data from several high-profile attacks have fueled an increase in automated and systematic attempts to reuse stolen credentials at multiple websites. The requests show user agents are systematically randomized. One of the most targeted sectors is online

The January meeting of OWASP Boston is Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., at Akamai Headquarters -- 150 Broadway, on the 2nd floor. Akamai CSIRT's Patrick Laverty will give a talk called "How a Hacker Views Your Web Site." Laverty offered these details of the talk: As defenders, we have to be right 100 percent of the time where an attacker only needs to be right once. The attack surface of a modern

Compiling a full list of security conferences for a 12-month period is hard. There are the obvious ones, like RSA, Black Hat and Defcon. But there are countless more with content and networking opportunities security practitioners can benefit from.To that end, I want to direct you to this excellent list from Henry Dalziel, a security blogger with Concise Courses. It's the most comprehensive list I've ever seen.

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